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...parks are relevant now more than ever. The more complicated and difficult the world is, the more families want to have a day, a few days or even four hours when they can escape it. The questions now are, Do people feel safe traveling in airplanes? Can they get fuel for driving their cars and afford vacations...
...wildfire behaves is determined by many variables, but among the most important are wind speed, topography, air temperature, humidity and, last but not least, fuel load. Variations in fuel load create the equivalent of speed bumps in the landscape that serve to slow fire down, and the problem we have now is that this patchiness in many places has all but disappeared--replaced by vast tracts of forest that are uniformly dense with unburned kindling...
...encouraging note in Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele's report on the U.S.'s impending fuel crunch was the success of Jimmy Carter's effort to reduce oil consumption, something that is clearly not a goal of the oilmen in the Bush Administration [SPECIAL REPORT, July 21]. The obvious solution to the energy crisis, though not the one Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney want to see, is conservation, mandated improvement of energy efficiency and development of renewable sources of energy. Pretty simple--unless your primary goal is increased profits for oil companies. CHARLENE M. WOODCOCK Berkeley, Calif...
...bottom up. The government should fund basic research but not try to promote specific types of new technologies. When they are ready for commercialization, they will come to market. Our goal should be not to attain energy self-sufficiency but to avoid relying too much on any one fuel or region. As long as the government doesn't get in the way, we will be O.K. for the foreseeable future. JOHN ZIMMERMAN Hopkinton...
America in its fuel crisis is like a 300-lb. man who eats four meals a day at McDonald's. Policymakers are deliberating over which exercise is the best path to weight loss. Instead, Americans should go on a diet of reduced energy consumption. We need to dramatically change our habits. JULIAN LAWSON New York City...